GATE 2018

GATE 2018 – IIT Guwahati will conduct Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2018 on February 3, 4, 10 and 11, 2018. The information brochure has been released by IIT Guwahati. GATE 2018 is scheduled to be held on February 3, 4, 10 and 11 at across 200 exam centres in India and 6 abroad. GATE 2018 is a national level post graduate entrance test that offers admissions to M.E./M.Tech/Ph.D in IITs/NITs/CFITs and other institutes in India, along with recruitment purpose in Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) like BHEL, GAIL, ONGC, IOCL among others. The online application form will be made available from September 1, 2017. The last date to apply for GATE 2018 is October 5, 2017. However, modifications in the exam centres can be done before November 17, 2017. The score card of GATE 2018 will be valid for three years for M.Tech admission from its date of declaration. GATE 2018, will be jointly monitored and administered by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) on behalf of the National Coordination Board (NCB) – GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. To get all important information about GATE 2018 eligibility criteria, important dates, application process, admit card, exam centres, exam pattern and more, go through the article below on this page.

What’s New in GATE 2018?

There are 6 new exam centres/towns of India added to the list of GATE exam centres 2018

According to the brochure for GATE 2018, the candidates are not required to upload their left hand thumb impression while filling the GATE online application form.

The result will be announced on March 17. But GATE 2018 score card will be available for download from March 20 to May 31, 2018.

For the academic year 2018- 19, GATE 2018 will be held across 200 cities in India.

IIT Guwahati has announced GATE 2018 important dates for the academic year 2018-19. Candidates can check GATE 2018 Important Dates from the table below.

GATE Important Dates 2018

S.No.

GATE 2018 Exam Events

Important Dates

1

GATE 2018 notification announced on

July 04, 2017

2

GATE 2018 applications started through GOAPS

September 1, 2017

3

Last date to fill GATE 2018 application form

October 05, 2017

4.

Last date to change GATE 2018 exam centre via GOAPS login

November 17, 2017

5.

Download of GATE 2018 Admit Card

January 5, 2018

6

GATE 2018 Exam Dates

February 3, 4, 10 & 11, 2018

7.

GATE 2018 Exam Schedule Forenoon:

9 am to 12 noon and Afternoon: 2 pm to 5 pm

8.

GATE 2018 Result

March 17, 2018

9.

Downloading of GATE 2018 Score Card

March 20 to May 31, 2018

GATE 2018 Zonal Centres

The computer based GATE exam is jointly monitored and administered by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and seven Indian Institutes of Technology situated at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee. The operations related to GATE exam is managed by respective zonal GATE Office at the IITs or IISc. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is the Organizing Institute (OI) for GATE 2018. The institute is responsible for the process and coordination amongst the administering institutes. Candidates can check the details of GATE 2018 zonal offices from the table given below.

The candidates who will be appearing for GATE 2018 must make sure that they fulfil the eligibility requirement as specified by the organising committee, IIT Guwahati. The given eligibility criteria of GATE 2018 must be met by the applicants:

The candidates should be an Indian national or must belong to Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates countries to apply for GATE 2018.

The candidates must have completed Bachelor’s degree holders in Engineering/Technology (4 years after 10+2 or 3 years after B.Sc./Diploma in Engineering /Technology)

All the below qualifying degree candidates can fill the online application form of GATE 2018:

The application form of GATE 2018 will be made available in online mode from September 1 to October 05, 2017. However, candidates can change the examination centre for appearing GATE 2018 before November 17, 2017. As the information brochure has been released by IIT Guwahati candidates are advised to go through it carefully to know their eligibility and application procedure before beginning the online registration of GATE 2018. Candidates are advised to read the prospectus carefully as and when it is released by the concerned authority, to know their eligibility and application procedure before beginning the online registration of GATE 2018. Basically, the registration process of GATE 2018 will be a five-stage procedure. The first stage is registration for the exam where candidates have to fill in the on-line application and obtain the registration number. At stage 2, candidates will be asked to fill personal and academic details. In the next stage, candidates have to upload their photographs, signature and documents as required. Stage 4 included making payment for the exam through Debit/Credit Card/Net Banking or Bank Challan. During the last stage, candidates have to take printout of confirmation page of filled -in GATE application form 2018 and preserve it for future purposes.

GATE Online Application Processing System (GOAPS) 2018:

Below are the stepwise procedure on ‘How to Fill GATE application form 2018’:

Step 1 – Registration: Candidates need to register first by providing a valid email ID and mobile number along with a password.

Step 2 – Logging and Filling the GATE 2018 Application Form: Candidates have to enter all the details such as personal, academic and address, etc. They must upload all required documents and submit before the last date.

Step 3 – Uploading Photograph, Signature and other Documents: Candidates uploaded their photograph, signature and degree certificate, category certificate if applicable and medical certificate in case of PwD candidates. Final year students must upload a scanned image of third year (fifth/sixth semester) mark sheet instead of the degree certificate.

Step 4 – Payment of Application Fees: The fee to be paid was Rs.1,500 (Rs.750 for SC/ST/Pwd/Female candidates). Payment had to be made through net banking or e-challan. Additional bank charges were applicable as per norms. International students who belong to Dubai and Singapore have to pay US$100 and candidates belonging to Addis Ababa, Dhaka, Colombo and Kathmandu have to pay US$ 50.

Step 5 – Candidates are required to download and print the GATE 2018 Application Form for future reference.

Previous Years’ Statistics of GATE Candidates:

Data in Table

Year

Registered

Appeared

Appeared (%)

Qualified

Qualified (%)

2006

184308

170252

92.37

33813

19.86

2007

168917

153822

91.06

44387

28.86

2008

184672

166027

89.9

31694

19.09

2009

230341

212130

92.09

35273

16.63

2010

460541

420596

91.33

59853

14.23

2011

612568

558480

91.17

96239

17.23

2012

777134

686614

88.35

108526

15.81

2013

1200728

984855

82.02

136699

13.88

2014

1033625

889157

86.02

149694

16.84

2015

927580

804463

86.73

121060

15.05

2016

971831

818850

84.26

135392

16.53

Data in Graph

GATE Admit Card 2018

The admit card of GATE 2018 will be released by IIT Guwahati on January 5, 2018. Candidates can download GATE admit card 2018 from the GATE Online Application Processing System (GOAPS) window within the given time period (to be notified by IIT-G). To download the admit card, candidates have to enter their enrolment ID or registered email ID, password and captcha. It must be noted that the candidates must take a colour printout of admit card and carry it to the exam centres along with any one of the original identification proofs including Passport, PAN Card, Voter ID, Aadhaar UID, Valid College ID, Employee identification card and Driving License, but it necessary to carry that ID proof as it will be required for the entrance test. The candidates who belong to the International countries must produce only a valid Passport/Government issued ID/College ID/ Employee ID which is to be accepted as the recognized identification.

The organizing committee, IIT Guwahati has released the list of examination cities of GATE 2018. The entrance test will be conducted in around 200 exam centres of GATE 2018. The candidate can choose three cities from the list of test entres. The first and second choices must be from the same GATE zone and third choice can be from any GATE zonal centres.

If a candidate chooses a particular city (in a particular zone) as the first choice, then they will be able to choose the city of second choice only from that particular zone. However, third choice can be from any one of the listed cities.

Click on the sub-head above to get the complete list of GATE exam centres

The detailed information about the exam pattern of GATE 2018 can be checked in the table provided below. The online examination will be 3 hours long and will consist of 65 questions – Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) as well as Numerical Answer Type (NAT). The questions asked in GATE 2018 will be designed to test the conceptual clarity and understanding of basics of the subject. The computation based questions will be the test to their understanding about concept implementation.

GATE 2018 questions booklet will have two different types of questions in various papers.

(i) Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) – These types of questions will be objective in nature having four options, out of which candidates have to choose one correct option. These types of questions will either carry 1 or 2 marks.

(ii) Numerical Answer Type (NAT) – These types of questions will be based on mathematical calculation. There will be no answer options for numerical type questions, and candidates have to enter the obtained answer using virtual keypad. The answer for these types of questions will be a real number, and candidates are advised to give the answer up to a maximum of three decimal places.

Design of GATE Questions: The questions paper of GATE 2018 is designed to test candidates’ conceptual clarity and understanding of basics of the subject. The computation based questions will test their understating about concept implementation and its result on various parameters.

The paper-wise distribution of questions and its marking scheme is given below.

The examination authority, IIT Guwahati has released discipline wise syllabus of GATE 2018. Each discipline of GATE 2018 has a different syllabus. Candidates are advised to download the syllabus as per their discipline and prepare themselves accordingly for the exam. The GATE syllabus 2018 for General Aptitude paper will be common for all candidates.

GATE Paper Codes 2018

GATE 2018 will be conducted for 23 disciplines, and candidates have to appear as per the opted subject. The list of GATE papers and its related codes is given below.

Official GATE Answer Key 2018 will be provided by IIT Guwahati, the organising comittee for GATE 2018. The institute will provide separate answer keys for all 23 papers. Candidates, who have appeared in the Graduate Aptitude Test of Engineering (GATE), can check and download the answer key as per their discipline from the link to be made available as and when it is released.

The result of GATE 2018 will be declared on March 17, 2018. The GATE result 2018 will be announced for only those candidates, who will score equal to or more than the specified qualifying marks as per their category. Each subject of GATE 2018 will have different qualifying marks. Candidates can check their GATE 2018 result from the link to be provided on this page. The score will be valid for three years.

The procedure to check GATE 2018 result is given below:

Click on the direct link to be activated soon after declaration of the result

Click on ‘GATE Result’ tab.

Enter GATE 2018 Registration Number, Roll Number and Date of Birth in the fields provided.

Cross check all the details entered before submitting

After verification, click on ‘Submit’ button and the result will be displayed

The sample papers of GATE 2018 will enable the candidates to prepare themseleves to test at every stage and measure their progress. The previous year GATE 2018 question papers can be used by the candidates for practice purposes and to get knowledge of the actual questions of the entrance test.

The GATE 2018 scorecards can be downloaded between 20 March 2018 to 31 May 2018 from the GOAPS portal. The examination authority will not issue hard copies of the scorecards. Therefore candidates have to download it within the prescribed dates.In case, a GATE qualified candidate requires the soft copy of their GATE Scorecard after 31 May 2018 and till 31 December 2018, should pay a fee of 500 (five hundred only) for obtaining the same.

The GATE 2018 scorecard will have following details

Name of candidate

Registration number of candidates

Gender

Name of Examination Paper

Marks secured by candidates out of 100

Qualifying marks

All India Rank in GATE 2018 (paper in which the candidate appeared)

GATE 2018 score

Based on the GATE 2018 score, candidates can either apply for M.E./M.Tech/ Ph.D. admissions in IITs/NITs/CFITs, and other universities in India or recruitment purpose in Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) like BHEL, GAIL, ONGC, IOCL, etc. Only those candidates who have obtained equal to or more than the specified cut off score (as announced by the PSU) can apply for the declared vacancies. While selecting candidates for academic programmes or recruitment, the concerned authority may take interview, written aptitude test or group discussion apart from GATE 2018 score.

GATE Cutoff 2018 for Admission

GATE 2018 opening and closing ranks will also be announced by the institutes separately. The candidates who will fall in the rank range of the given scores will be given admission in the institutes. Candidates must check for the Institute cutoff/opening and closing rank as well as the branch wise cutoff and register themselves if they fulfil the requirements for admission.

GATE Counselling and Seat Allotment 2018

There is no single/common counselling held for GATE 2018 qualified candidates. The counselling of GATE 2018 qualified candidates will be conducted separately for NITs and IITs. Each of the participating institutes will conduct separate GATE 2018 counselling procedure for the qualified candidates. The candidates must visit the respective institutes they want to get admission and appear in the counselling process as per the schedule.

Highlights of GATE 2018

GATE 2018 will not have any common counselling for admission to IITs and NITs.

The IITs and IISc will conduct GATE counselling separately as per the respective institute for admission to M.Tech courses.

PSUs like BPCL, HPCL, IOCL etc will declare their recruitment through GATE 2018. Candidates must apply for the specified jobs if they meet the eligibility criteria. However, they will be shortlisted only if they have valid GATE scores and meet the cutoff determined by the respective PSUs.

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